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I am not sure I agree that before Snowden this could have been perceived as paranoid. As part of the discussion on the crypto list Ben Laurie brings up an important point:

"But what's the argument for _not_ mixing their probably-not-backdoored RNG with other entropy?"[1]

Does your answer to this really change that much "pre-Snowden"?

[1] http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-July/...




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